A St. Louis judge has ruled that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is entitled to Planned Parenthood’s transgender care records, ordering the nonprofit to turn over some of its most sensitive files to the man who has built his unelected political career on restricting health care access for trans people.
I'll post some, ahem, cutting humor in regards to the real killer's passing in a minute—but first... TRIGGER WARNING: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson – Evergreen Review
Nicole Simpson went to many experts on domestic violence for help but none of them stopped him. That’s what it takes: the batterer has to be stopped. He will not stop himself. He has to be imprisoned, or killed, or she has to escape and hide, sometimes for the rest of her life, sometimes until he finds another woman to “love.” There is no proof that counseling the batterer stops him.
I stopped at the gas station this morning and one of the clerks (who knew I was trans and had had top surgery) revealed that she was going to get her boobs done.
And she asked me who my surgeon was, so she could go there too.
I'm pretty sure that that's what victory sounds like.
Mine was Don Revis, Jr. of South Florida Plastic Surgery Associates. He's phenomenal, specializes in big damn tiddies, and is great with transfems.
Realself is a great place to look--but almost all of the best top surgeons are in LA or south FL.
I tested with breast forms and rice sizers, but ultimately you need to follow your heart. That last bit was incredibly tough for me, because I was afraid big time of job impacts. None have come--to paraphrase CJ, I'm already a trans--
@StormyDragon --woman. The tits hardly enter into it as career impacts go, regardless of size. And besides, they legally can't say a thing, because it'd be sexual harassment.
If your heart calls out to get giant boobs, and you can manage the financial and practical part of it, I honestly say go for it, and as big as you dream. Nobody's gonna hate you for your tits who didn't already hate you for being trans.
I find myself wishing people CW’d transphobic news. Lots of folks are on fedi specifically to escape the constant transphobic drone of mainstream socials and news. The fact that news is significant just offers more reason to CW it. Not all of us can or want to be politically engaged.
"It’s so clear that he has never had a real position on abortion, the whole Roe v. Wade thing was just a bone he threw to the yapping fundamentalists, he has to squint to get the names of the Supreme Court justices right even to thank them."
Please give me a moment while I reach around and pat myself on the back, because I just finished watching the video of Trump’s abortion announcement on Truth Social, so you don’t have to. In a word, it was excruciating.
"In the end, the whole thing is a hostage video made by a desperate man: save me, just get out there and vote for me, vote for Donald Trump, me me me me, just please vote for me and keep me out of jail, and we’ll talk about some new horrible demand like banning rubbers and sex toys that you Christians blackmail me to support later. …
We need a record of his madness, because it’s getting worse, veering off into grandiose mega-lies like baby executions…."
NYT fact checks what has come out of Trump's mouth on the campaign trail: distortion and outright lies
#NSS Unlocked gift article - because this is important.
Since the beginning of his political career, Donald J. Trump has misled, mischaracterized, dissembled, exaggerated and, at times, flatly lied. His flawed statements about the border, the economy, the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 election have formed the bedrock of his 2024 campaign. Though his penchant for bending, and often breaking, the truth has been well documented, a close study of how he does so reveals a kind of technique to his dishonesty: a set of recurring rhetorical moves with which Mr. Trump fuels his popularity among his supporters.
The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to “build huge camps to detain people,” and “to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.” How many people? “Millions” writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.
Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law prohibiting Medicaid and state employee health plans from covering the cost of gender-affirming medications and procedures for low-income transgender adults and minors.
Janel Diaz - "It should not matter to you how I dress, what I choose to wear, how I choose to express myself. It should not make you angry how I'm living my life," Diaz says. "That's what makes me want to fight so much more for the cause, for my organization Capital Tea being here in the Bible Belt."
In Florida, Capital Tea sets out to protect trans rights : NPR
The Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, today upheld injunctions in two related cases against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) and former Commissioner Jaime Masters, barring them from implementing the agency’s rule expanding the definition of child abuse to presumptively treat the provision of gender-affirming care as child abuse.
AUSTIN, Texas — Today the Texas Court of Appeals upheld two injunctions against the Texas DFPS and former Commissioner Jaime Masters, barring them from implementing the agency’s rule expanding the
I made my first announcement to my closest friends that I was #trans. It was on a social media site known as LiveJournal, which many of you have likely never heard of. I migrated off of that site years ago. You can see that post now on my blog at https://janetannelogan.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/announcement/ . It's no longer locked.
Barbara and I had discussed me making that post in advance, and she was supportive. This was my first attempt at transition. Then in August of 2009, she went back into the hospital, and I detransitioned to be able to care for her. Back then, we feared I wouldn't be able to be with her as Janet. After she passed in 2010, I grieved for a long time. Then I restarted transition and have lived as Janet since.
That's one I'm not familiar with. Are you also familiar with InsaneJournal? I mirrored LiveJournal over there after the Russian take-over of LiveJournal.
Just over a month ago, I made a huge change in my life. I did that in order to feel safe again. And to bottom line that: I do absolutely feel safe, and loved, and cared for.
I think most people would object to forcing women to wear skirts. Beating up girls who do unladylike things like dancing or calculus. Many can even see how silly it is to tease a boy for enjoying painting more than sports.
Most* get this.
What I don't understand is how it isn't obvious that transphobia is the exact same impulse.
There is no "reasonable" amount of transphobia you can tolerate without also supporting rigid harmful gender norms in general. 1/
Theo Easton has received significant praise since he started "experimenting" by wearing girls' clothes and now he has even worn a pinafore, and knee-high socks to school
@Fragarach I think it was Iggy Pop who said "it's not women's clothing when I'm wearing it," or something to that effect. Also "I'm not ashamed of dressing like a woman because there's nothing wrong about being a woman."
@youseeatortoise @Fragarach You're bang on with the latter, but I'm wondering if the former maybe you were thinking of 'They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.' which was Suzy Izzard?
Although Iggy Pop probably did say something along the same lines; searching online is not helping because both Google and DuckDuckGo just want to sell me clothing. Sigh.
It is impossible to make policies that target trans people without also subjecting cis women and men even more rigid gender boundaries too.
If you have a rule about "only assigned female at birth people can use this bathroom" the cis tom girls are going to get targeted too. (and some trans women will never be noticed)
I think it's crappy if this is the only way to get people to care about it. But it's so dangerous I'll take it for now.
By wearing pink, you have tied this hospital's hands, we cannot treat this medical condition.
That's not really a big step from what we're talking about, honestly.
And yes, it..bothers me more than I have commonly said that cis women being attacked (again, because this has already been happening) is very possibly the only thing that makes this particular ball of hatred unravel, but I don't know another solution, other than 'wait it out'.
@Oggie the worst part is that most of them know. When cishet men propose laws to hurt trans people, they love that cis women will be hurt in the process. When cis women propose them, especially queer cis women, some part of them knows but they're willing to go through subjugation as long as they're also getting to be the boot sometimes. This messaging will only work with moderates who haven't made up their mind on what they're willing to accept, so let's hope that's enough.
The popes recent attack on gender struck me as odd- claiming gender ideology makes everyone the same instead of recognizing that it allows for an incredibly broad spectrum of gender identity instead of 2 distinct categories from which any deviation is punished.
My nonbinary child wears a suit with brightly colored nails and gummy bear earrings a combo you wouldn’t see with rigid gender norms.
@RogerBW yes because that’s how they get the population to go along with the work camps and forced breeding. They are angry that women aren’t risking their lives and destroying their health to provide little employees for the Tyson chicken plant.
That is where my hope lies as well. As soon as cis people start becoming impacted by these laws and the leopards start eating their faces, they'll be forced to undo them. In the meantime, we must keep fighting wherever we can. ✊❤️
@alshra you’re right, I hate that you’re right, but you are. Society finally started caring about AIDS when housewives were getting it from their cheating husbands.
@alshra That's not how neurotypical people make laws, I'm afraid. They hardly ever undo a law because it turns out to be stupid. They'll add epicycles and special exceptions.
@riley Maybe so, but they're going to soon find that it's incredibly hard to thread that particular needle without making everyone else's lives miserable in the process. It's unsustainable. ❤️
@alshra @riley Look at abortion laws. They are causing death all over the place, and now IVF is endangered. But the core R contingent shows no hesitancy in pressing on. They dont care about threading the needle.
@alshra My fear for your country is that, by the time the majority find themselves sufficiently oppressed to take action, any action they can take will be either dangerous or ineffective. We already know that GOP plans to come after political opponents:
@nddev @alshra who do we vote for to defeat this though? Look at how bad everything is now well Biden has been running the show? But only he can save us? If so why do we have to wait until 2025 for him to do anything at all. We are in his final year and weak sauce hasn’t even fixed the post office yet. Dude can’t even fire a Nazi who destroyed federal property from the post office but he’s supposed to save the whole country from project 2025? Sure.
Voting is something we do on one day every year or so. It shouldn't. It CAN'T be the only response.
There are there other obvious avenues:
* local organizing * creative production, sharing information, educating each other * supporting local organizing in other places, financially or with the donation of skills and time
In addition to all of that we can vote too. In every election possible, for whoever causes the least harm and on rare occasions might do good
@maggiejk @nddev @alshra My response to this is that history didn't start when Trump got elected. The Republicans have been at this for 50 years in a unified project that touches every aspect of society.
(And part of that effort is seeding apathy and hopelessness in the general population)
It's going to take decades of diligent, difficult work to undo the damage caused to our society by the GOP. And that's only if we stay committed and don't lose hope.
@maggiejk @nddev @alshra He won’t save us, but Biden will not enact a Christian nationalist agenda. We’ll muddle along as we are. The other option is to jump off the nationalist cliff. It’s not a vote to make things better, it’s a vote not to make things worse.
@Dianora @nddev It's definitely a scary time, but we can't lose hope, or they'll win. Lift up and support each other, and soon the fascists will have no one left to ally with. ❤️
' Here's my bottom line: If we truly believe that allowing discrimination based on someone's failure to conform, physically or in dress, mannerisms, makeup, etc., to sex or gender "norms" or stereotypes is wrong, then there is no principled way to ban anyone from using any sex-segregated facility without violating that principle. Any such attempt will necessarily be based on the person's failure to conform to one of those norms. In addition, any such attempt will give someone, whether a court, government official, doctor, therapist, facility owner, or fellow patron, the arbitrary power to enforce such norms by deciding who is and who isn't feminine or masculine enough to use a given facility. Moreover, the power to determine whether I am a man or a woman, or am feminine or masculine enough to be considered one or the other, is not something I am willing to cede to anyone. Nor do I think anyone else should be required to give up that power. '
@linglingo This is it. Transphobia cedes legal authority to determine if you are "man enough" or "lady enough" (to use a bathroom, or receive medical care or work at a job or for a 12 year old to play soccer) to the most extremist patriarchical judgment of external appearance or behavior.
It's precisely why a little girl (tomboy) was publicly deemed a subversive transgirl.
We are all subversive transpeople if we don't conform to the most theocratic views of self-expression.
I wear pants, my grey hair is short, I run a business, I don't cook or sew, I express my own opinions, I am a transubversive.
Anti-Trans laws are also wage suppression schemes in disguise.
Republican billionaire donors are desperate to keep their gender-based & race-based wage discounts.
Wage theft underlies most GOP public policies
It's one reason #KochNetwork fought a 50 year battle to stop the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; to keep gender-based pay disparity, along with immigrant- & race- based wage suppression
Political attacks on trans youth, anti-racist school curriculum, and abortion share an ideological framework. Our political response should bring these fights together.
> It is impossible to make policies that target trans people without also subjecting cis women and men even more rigid gender boundaries too.
I think that's a large part of the point. There's a set of people who have never stopped wanting to use state power to enforce those things, and this is their latest attempt.
it is fucking infuriating that people are trying to give schools permission to strip search your daughter if the gym teacher thinks they’re too good at sports and call it “protecting kids.”
To which they might say. "it wouldn't be a problem if your daughter would act a little more feminine!"
And on to the mandatory skirts. Which start as skirts of prudent precaution because each child has learned not to step outside of gender lines to an even more extreme degree than we see today.
Girls will keep their voices down, not shout or laugh too loud.
Boys will continue the project of smothering any evidence of compassion or vulnerability.
June 23, 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is enacted by Congress and is signed into law by President Richard Nixon, prohibiting sex discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving any type of federal financial aid.
It's all the same story. Boys are cannon fodder and women are property, there is no third option and all this is necessary to the function of the coercive state.
Following World War II, the early Cold War era was marked by a polarizing gender ideology. Women who had entered the manufacturing industry at unprecedented numbers during the war effort, left or were pushed out of higher education and the workforce.
@mhoye @Nazani This has always been the way patriarchy violently appropriates the bodies and lives of human beings. Females forced (directly or by exclusion of other options, social pressure) to bear children, males forced to fight and die. Patriarchy harms men, too.
@mhoye I always wonder about the suitability of letting someone keen to work with children work with children, especially when it may involve seeing said children in, say, a locker room shower. It's a paradox.
As a stereotypical short-haired lesbian I’ve been stared at and sometimes challenged by straight cis women in public bathrooms many a time. And I’m not even that butch. One of the reasons why I’ll never understand why some lesbians my age stand with the transphobes. We are absolutely going to be next. Because we come from there. How do you not see that?
No, enforcing gender conformity, even to the point of violence, is pretty inline with the Republican Party. Remember a little more than a decade ago the Romney campaign, who seemed like a corporate standard Republican, had to account for high school bullying in which he pinned down a boy with long hair and forcibly cut his hair? They wrote it off with "I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize." So, that's not quite the response you give when you've been called to account for something clearly fucked up which you know is obviously harmful.
The "anti-woke" laws/rules/regs in places like e.g Florida make displaying an image of e.g. John Lennon from one of his long-hair phases, or Audrey Hepburn from one of her short-hair phases, a criminal act on par with sexually assaulting a child.
Like, having an Abbey Road or Sabrina poster on the wall in your college dorm room can get you prosecuted. Transporting a minor across state lines in order to have sex with her? Meh.
I like the term "anti-gender" movement to roll up the various right wing and patriarchal christian groups who are cooperating to re-implement their vision of a rigid repressive world dominated by white christian men.
They're pushing violence and oppression of whatever LGBT group they can get people to hate, but they're also the same groups who are also attacking abortion, family planning, and no-fault divorce.
"For some years now, there have been reports of an increasingly organised movement in Europe against access to safe abortion and contraception, LGBTI rights, and sex education. This is visible in different forms, from increased violence and hate speech, to difficulties accessing funding for organisations, and regressive law-making."
I kind of think some of the anti-gender movement is a backlash against MeToo. The powerful men who were abusing women with impunity are mad that women have gained enough political and economic power that they could now face consequences.
Over half of funding for anti-gender actors in Europe appears to come from within Europe itself, with significant amounts of money also flowing from the US and the Russian Federation, according to information shared at the European Parliament in Marc…
at my son's school the administration refused to budge on the "girls must wear skirts and boys must wear pants" rule so the boys got together and all wore skirts to school in protest. After that they relaxed the rule.
I'm a trans person living in the deep south, and when I have to dumb down the whole argument to folks, basically it goes "transphobia and homophobia just boil down to sexism at it's root."
Because it really is just sexism, with a neat little bow even. It's sex based discrimination against anyone who's birth sex differs from their gender identity and how they present in public, as well as discrimination of a person's partner and relationship status again based on sex.
honestly I think this is part of the point of the Christian right’s attack on trans people. They benefit from strict gender roles. The very existence of trans people points out the sham of the system.
Culture is learned and if one isn’t self aware, then the toxic aspects of our culture will reveal themselves eventually. I don’t think it has to make sense.
Gender stereotyping in clothing is long entrenched. Remember they invented a whole new type of saddle rather than allow women to wear pants riding horses. That being said the time did come when women wearing pants was accepted but men in skirts not so much.
I've always leaned male on the spectrum. It is a totally different experience for trans males than trans femmes. So much more fear. Especially with PTSD.
Have we reached the point where trans males are allowed to speak?
@violetmadder They are testing it in Australia. Such horror stories. I was arrested in New Orleans once (trying to stop a dog fight). I left the country the next week.
What they did to people in there was horrendous. I was pretty safe because I was in the women's holding cell. Only women cops could touch us. Stripsearch etc..
We don't take the rapes men suffer in prison seriously as it is and it should be taken seriously. IDK about "weight classes" but prisons are overfull, destructive rather than constructive places, and prison is used as a punishment too often.
Some trans men might not be safe in prison. (Some would be fine I'd imagine, cis and trans men come in all sorts of sizes) But many men are already unsafe. That's unacceptable. THAT is the problem.
@RustyBertrand "This study only for people with uteruses. This study only for fertile persons with penises. How to study birth control? Endometriosis? Viagra?"
You just answered your own question. Medical studies should in fact write out their real requirements just like that.
"How to protect small women in prisons surrounded by large women with penises?"
Well, ideally, by abolishing prisons. But failing that, just protect every prisoner from every other prisoner. A penis doesn't make a person more aggressive, anyway.
It seems to me that we're all in this thing we call existence trying to figure out our and be happy. While my sexual preferences are specific, it costs me nothing to treat others like decent human beings. And i will never understand people who get angry and violent just because someone else is different. ✌️🍻
I've unfortunately been on the receiving end of those stupid gendered comments. At least 5x while working in what used to be called "male dominated" fields, I've had men start a convo with me, unsolicited, and tell me I didn't belong just b/c I was female. WTF?! (And I'm cis-gendered) i feel for every trans, different gendered human.
Only one ever apologized but only after I 'proved' myself.
nevertheless when i was living on the coast, i was dismayed to notice that MOST of hte little girls were in tight fitting revealing bathing suits while the little boys wore their baggy clothes. and then there is the ever present ballet classes and...
what bothers me is that we in this century are forgetting how SLOWW humans and socieity is to change.
not gonna happen overnight.
then again, compared to a lot of world/history... american culture is very straightjacketed.
I'll take it I guess. But I'm reeling at what kind of person you have to be for... IVF. Expensive, basically luxury IVF to be the thing that pushed you over the edge with these people at last.
Not the 11 year olds having their rapist's babies. Not the dehumanization, not the blood thirsty rhetoric.
But Pat and Pam getting their baby shower at long last...
this is something I actually don't quite understand entirely. How is it a boy could wear a dress which is merely questioning gender norms and similarly if they then identify as a woman it's not specifically playing into gender norms? Like is gender a social construct? And if so what is the point of trans if it's just not body dysmorphia? I don't think it's body dysmorphia personally at least not generally but then what is it if it's not just playing with gender norms? I apologize if I come across as a "devil's advocate" but if you or anyone could give me a legit answer I'd love to know better! Edit: Spelling
One pretty good working definition of a "conservative" is someone who only cares about things that directly affect them. No understanding or empathy for anything that doesn't enter the direct line of their own experience.
@amydentata @ThreeSigma @alshra @riley They never think they'll be the one's losing their repro rights until they do. Now, suddenly, they're screaming about it. Maybe something positive will come out of this.
People, on the whole and by and large, DO support rigid harmful gender norms.
The norms have been expanded some, so that women can wear pants (but watch the utter unspeakable freakout if a woman should get married in pants) but unevenly and not really that much. The idea of norms, that there must be a norm and it must be enforced, is alive and well and receives its regular tithe of human sacrifices.
On Friday, March 1, Texas Health and Human Services will implement a new rule restricting access to gender affirming care for adults enrolled in the Texas Medicaid program.
It's cool as shit seeing you as someone to emulate in many different facets while also getting to see you still experience new and exciting things as you continue moving forward. It makes me vicariously happy.
I'm 37 now and hopefully starting my transition this year if my care at the University of Michigan Gender Clinic Place goes well. I have no idea what the results will be, and that does make me nervous about how I'll appear.
But, on the other hand, below all the joy, beauty, and love I've felt and discovered for myself and the world as I've started on this journey (and others) is a steady, incandescent fury at the people in this world who have corrupted it to the point I had to spend three and a half decades hiding from myself.
I'm going to wear a god damn mini skirt if I want to.
@MontaWorldPeace I started at 34 and I'm thinking of buying one. My wife has been looking at them lately with horny eyes. IDK that I'm quite confident enough in my body to wear one yet but it may happen yet this summer. 😅
@faithisleaping @MontaWorldPeace I’m of the opinion that there’s nothing more ridiculous than rejecting joyful things, so bring on the fashion I missed!
probably 3-4 days a week my work outfit includes some kind of miniskirt (which I define as one that hits where my fingers reach on my thigh or higher)(and I work in a pretty buttoned up place). A few of them are quite tight, one is bright pink. Granted it's usually over tights or leggings, but those are the outfits that make me feel joyful and like I can do anything, so I wear them. I'm 41.
I think technically the pride bodycon skirt I got last year is a miniskirt... But yeah there's probably one of those skater miniskirts in my future eventually.
(And I started at 36. And I already have gem-studded fishnets.)
<counts on fingers> Huh. We’re all different ages than I thought we were. Like, I knew we were all pretty close to each other, but I think I’m closest to Zoe (when I thought I was closest to Rylie). This is both totally irrelevant yet kindof amusing to me how much I aged up Faith and Zoe because I look up to your self knowledge and how much you reach out to help others, and how much I was like, “Rylie and I are at the same point in this, we must be the same age!”
Content warning: Wherein Willow does irrelevant age math and realizes she’s older than… well, than she thought.
@Willow @faithisleaping @MontaWorldPeace mentally I feel like Faith is older than me, but what it actually is, is that she's further in transition than me. At the moment, that's the age that matters to my brain, time in transition
Content warning: Wherein Willow does irrelevant age math and realizes she’s older than… well, than she thought.
@Specialist_Being_677 @Willow @faithisleaping @MontaWorldPeace Transition seniority is SO WEIRD!! Like, one of the facilitators at my local gender support group is, I think, 20 or 21, but she figured herself out super super young, so she's been in transition longer than any of us.
I love my miniskirts but yeah, wearing them out in public is sometimes questionable based on the length. You can wear biking shorts underneath them though and its super cute!
A father has shared on TikTok how emotional it was to see a transgender woman living out and proud in a small Texas town. While his supportive video is touching, his son’s enthusiastic support steals the moment.
An environment in which it is permissible for a student to be violently beaten and later die without school officials so much as reporting the incident to police is not created overnight. It does not come to be over the course of a single month. It’s been fomenting for years, and the voices I want to hear from and uplift in the wake of Nex’s death are those of the young people who have endured that nightmare firsthand.
Arguing about who’s platforming Chaya Raichik is a distraction from the voices we desperately need to hear from after the death of Nex Benedict, those of young people at Owasso's public schools.
I drove past Owasso twice today. I thought I had forgot to cry, but the rain poured. They were all I could think about today.
And that astonishingly grossly callous superintendent who can only think about himself and his pit of cold hate. If Nex was a commissioned law enforcement officer, the bullies would have been immediately behind bars without bail for murder.
I cry for them, and all of our youth like them. I fear for all of us. I fear that we may yet live to see what the Christofascists want for us become reality.
On Friday, Resolve: The National Infertility Association announced that nationwide embryo shipping services have indicated that they will stop transporting embryos in and out of Alabama.
And a heart-felt "Fuck you" to everyone who told me in 2016 that I was overreacting. Yes, that's a meme. I don't care. I feel it in my bones. I cried the night they called that election for Trump. I cried myself to sleep.
"I told you so" is too gentle, too subtle.
'Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing" '
This situation has persisted too long. If you know @V. T. Eric Layton, then you know what a kind caring person he is. He’s been using buckets to try to catch rain from multiple leaks, to the point of now having water standing in his home regularly during rain storms. In Tampa, where the climate is sub-tropical, and rain is very heavy, particularly in the upcoming wet season. Please consider making a contribution to help him get roof repair / replacement before the wet season.
Tampa has a pronounced wet season, receiving a yearly average of about 30 inches (760 mm) of rain from June to September
“Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
I want to get that out of the way up front, because it's true. I have no dog in the fight.
But I want to state, unequivocally and clearly, that I stand with those who have the equipment for giving birth on the topic of abortion, and IVF, and any other power grabs the right comes up with to control the bodies of birthing people.
For me, it's an issue we as trans people should be fighting as hard for as we fight for our own direct issues. Bodily autonomy applies. It's the same basic issue motivating both anti-trans and anti-abortion campaigners: control of others' bodies.
When we fight for abortion access, we are indirectly and directly still fighting for trans people. We're fighting for trans masc and AFAB enby people to be given full rights over their own bodies. That's the direct path. We're also fighting for the right for all trans people to control our bodies.
So let's stand beside our uterine neighbours, trans women. We are all in the same fight.
Cis women! It's time you stood up with us to fight for trans rights. It's your fight too.
Why? Because it's all about bodily autonomy. Trans people are fighting for the right to control our own bodies. Sound familiar?
It's the same fight, women. We need your help, just as we give ours. We are in the same fight, and should be shoulder to shoulder about both our sets of issues.
The best way to fight fascism is *together*. The more of us fighting, the better our chances of winning.
I FEEL this but I cant tell you how many times I have attempted to show my alliance only to be shot down because I couldnt possibly understand.........................
I gave up. I simply watch now. Because my desire to be an ally was very often seen as unwelcome.
I appreciate this message so much. We need to stand together on "each others" issues, because they are actually the same issue.
If bodily autonomy can be restricted for one group, that means it can also be so for any group. Any time this is threatened, anyone else who could be next needs to speak up.
Since it could be anyone, that means everyone needs to care. I like to think that we could get to a point that most people see these as the same issue and stand together by default.
What we're up against is the conviction that women are half-persons; a semi-human mechanism that men use to make more men.
If you're a woman who for whatever reason can't or won't submit to that, or anybody else who won't play their assigned part, you aren't a person at all. You are diseased tissue that must be excised from the social body.
The fascists say all this out loud. They are monsters, but they aren't stupid. They have a detailed program, well under way.
This situation has persisted too long. If you know @V. T. Eric Layton then you know what a kind caring person he is. He's been using buckets to try to catch rain from multiple leaks, to the point of now having water standing in his home regularly during rain storms. In Tampa, where the climate is sub-tropical, and rain is very heavy, particularly in the upcoming wet season. Please consider making a contribution to help him get roof repair / replacement before the wet season.
Tampa has a pronounced wet season, receiving a yearly average of about 30 inches (760 mm) of rain from June to September
@fizzylogic The 70,000 number comes from the website down detector and that’s simply based on how many people know about that website and went there to report problems. That isn’t the total number of people affected
Parts of East Coast are coming up but I’m hearing that Virginia and Florida are still out as of 11 AM .
@failedLyndonLaRouchite The 70,000 number is based on how many people went to the website to report service being down, not by affected people, because AT&T isn’t admitting how many people are affected by this yet
Personally, I’m guessing it’s going to end up being one of these “Jimmy, our intern, was put in charge of a massive software update, and hit the 3 key instead of the 2….” stories but who knows and who knows what they will admit to
@failedLyndonLaRouchite (shrug) "AT&T outage leaves more than 70,000 phones without service"
that's where the number comes from .... I guess it's better than them saying "millions" and it turning out not to be millions although it obviously was
“More than 70,000” is technically true, however the total number including cell phone, personal inte, business internet, email, and authentication services provided by AT&T is probably closer to 70 million affected!
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